Elon Musk is not spending $45 million a month to elect former President Donald Trump, though he has created a new super political action committee to fund the Republican candidate,” Fortune reports.

Said Musk: “What’s been reported in the media is simply not true. I am not donating $45 million a month to Trump.”

He added: “I don’t prescribe to a cult of personality.”

  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I’ve never liked that guy.

    But then I had the opportunity to meet the actual founders of Tesla; so when he started pretending he founded Tesla, it seemed pretty douchey to me.

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      3 months ago

      Yeah I didn’t know about the “purchasing the right to call himself a founder” thing until fairly recently. I probably would have started in a similar place if I had

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        3 months ago

        Oh. He didn’t just purchase it.

        There was a lawsuit. Bought in with 6.5mil (10+ with inflation,) then sued them for the right to be called “co-founders”

        Edit: whoever his PR team was before he fired them; they were insanely good. That’s when people started realizing how awful he was.

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            3 months ago

            Yup. before his fall, it’s best if you just assume everything you read about him is pure propaganda. because it pretty much is.